Toxic Friends Steal Our Happiness

Toxic friends are not good for the soul, the spirit, and even your health.

If we have friends who are pumping energy from us, it is possible that they are toxic friends who are trying to steal our happiness.

And anyone who steals our happiness from us has no place at our side since it only brings harm. What about you, do you have toxic friends in your life?

To realize that others are stealing your happiness from you, it is necessary that you respect yourself and that you think above all about what is good for you.

Your true friends will be the ones who support you, who make you grow as a person, who make you feel good, and who never make you sink.

If you are not sure whether or not you are surrounded by toxic people, you should start to assess how you feel when you are around these people.

In this article, you will be able to discover the different classes of toxic friends who can easily rob you of your happiness, as well as their characteristics.

The friend who uses you

There are toxic friends who only write to you when they need you or call you to ask for a favor.

When you see them, maybe you feel like you are being used. If a friend only calls or remembers you when they need something, they really aren’t your friend. 

To be fair, in friendships we use other people up to a point and this should not be frowned upon, as long as we appreciate the value of the relationship and there is a strong bond.

If your friend is only asking for support and doesn’t improve the well-being of both of them, then this person has no place in your life.

The negative friend

Honesty is a rare quality and it has nothing to do with negativity. When a friend regularly tells you that you can’t do something, that everything is wrong, or that they only point out the negative in every situation, that’s definitely a problem.

It is good to have a friend who speaks to you sincerely, who is courageous, who puts his finger where it hurts, who disinfects and who cleans the wound.

However, someone who does this constantly can end up hurting deeply.

The grumpy friend

Of course, anyone can have a bad day (even the most positive people).

Sometimes complaining is a good way to channel bad energy.

Grieving people, instead of being in control of their lives and doing things to change what is wrong with their life, prefer to blame other people for what happens to them.

They keep complaining about things that didn’t happen. These type of people will even be able to accuse you of their own delays, hurting you for free and stealing your happiness. Don’t give them that power!

The friend who criticizes everything

If someone is continually criticizing your life, the way you dress, or any aspect of your personality, it is not a good sign.

There is a big difference between constructive criticism and mean criticism. 

It doesn’t take long for people who get used to criticizing to generalize this attitude in all spheres of their lives.

However, there is a curious paradox: who is a specialist in criticizing others is not often a specialist in self-criticism.

So, if you have a friend who criticizes you in every project you take on, we have to tell you that that person is actually doing what they don’t like about them.

Their disagreement with the world is transferred to you, and in a way, you are the way out of their frustrations since you are close to them.

Think that, by definition, a friend is someone who makes us feel good, helps us and inspires us.

But he’s also someone we can trust and who we’ll give the benefit of the doubt, simply because we value him.

However, the ideal does not always happen, as we have seen, and it often happens that we have a close person, disguised as a friend, who hurts us and deeply.